OKAY PEOPLE! THIS IS MY NEWEST STORY!!! COOL HUH!!!! THIS IDEA POPPED INTO MY HEAD DURING VACATION AND I WANTED TO PUT IT DOWN AND SHARE IT WITH ALL OF YOU!!!!

SUMMARY: TROY IS A CAREFREE AND PLAYBOY ROCKER FRONTMAN FOR HIS BAND "THE SPARES" AND LIVES EACH DAY WITH NO REAL PLAN IN LIFE BUT TO ENJOY AND ROCK OUT. GABBY, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A BEAUTIFUL STUDENT STUDYING AT THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TO BE A TEACHER. SHE THRIVES ON PREDICTABILITY AND STABILITY AND LIVES HER LIFE SAFELY AND FOCUSES ON HER GOALS. HOWEVER DIFFERENT THESE TWO PEOPLE ARE, THEY SEEM TO CROSS PATHS IN NEW YORK CITY. AND IN DOING SO, IT CHANGES BOTH OF THEIR LIVES MORE DRASTICALLY THAN THEY COULD EVER IMAGINE!

Troy Bolton shot up from his deep sleep as he heard the rumble from the train and saw the gray New York city light spilling into his small trashed bedroom he shared with his best friend Chad Danforth.

He dragged a hand through his messy brown hair and rubbed his eyes of the tiredness that was overtaking him. Sitting up fully, he swung his feet over the edge of the bed and grabbed a white shirt off the floor. Kicking beer cans and pizza boxes and music sheets out of the way, he stepped out into the living room of his apartment to find his fellow band mates Chad, Zeke Palmer, and Jason Cross sprawled out on the couch and armchair, each with beers in their hands.

"Guys! Come on!" Troy said as he made his way to the refrigerator, "It's not even 12 in the afternoon and you slobs are drinking?"

"You're wrong there captain oblivious!" Chad said not taking his eyes away from the TV screen.

"Yeah," chimed in Jason, "It's already 2!"

"What? Oh damn!" Troy said as he grabbed a water bottle and joined his friends on a separate armchair, "Must've drank too much at our gig last night, if you can call it a gig! I swear its still the same sods who come every time!" he took a swig of water.

"Yeah sure! The same hot and eager girls throwing themselves at us! And especially you Troy! I don't see why you're complaining!" Troy scoffed and sat watching the game enthralled too.

In truth, most of their fan base was eager groupies who came to gawk at them but never really listened to the lyrics Troy wrote. They especially came to stare and maybe even flirt, with Troy. He had to admit, as nice as it was to be considered a "Sex-god" to all of them, he was all about the music and the freedom it gave.

Since high school, he, Chad, Zeke and Jason had been close friends through their equal love of basketball and, more importantly, music. Once they had graduated, they turned down all the basketball scholarships and college openings to be fulltime rockers with Troy on lead vocals and guitar, Chad on bass and back up vocals, Zeke on drums and Jason on keyboard.

Together, they formed the New York based band, Spares, which was tattooed on each of their shoulder blades as a symbol of eternal brotherhood. Troy, however had the most tattoos of them coming to a total of eight simple tattoos around his upper torso. For him, pain was like hitting the wrong not in a song, sure it annoys the hell out of you, but you really cant let that get in the way of noticing the rest of the song sounds awesome.

Troy and his buddies lived day to day. To them, the past is the past and, whatever the future had in store would be futile and a waste to control. Typical rock star mentality.

None of them had really stable relationships, especially Troy. Mostly one night stands or their "girlfriends" they had couldn't stand their carefree mindsets or dangerous facades because, after all, none of them exactly looked like they stepped out of a J. Crew catalog. But nonetheless, this never really bothered them; they weren't for stability, just the music.

And to support their endeavors, Troy's wealthy parents gave him a hefty monthly allowance, maybe to convince him to give up the rock star life and go back to working for his fathers business. Then on the side they each had jobs. Troy worked at a local city record shop where he was now manager due to his extensive knowledge on all things rock. Chad was the concierge at the Crown Plaza hotel right in Times Square, he hated the prissy outfit but he was paid incredibly well. Jason and Zeke worked at the swanky and upscale 5-star restaurant, C'est Magnifique, where Jason was head waiter and Zeke, the passionate assistant chef. So far, they had their lives just as they wanted.

"Oh yeah, before I forget," Chad said speaking up as all the guys turned to him, "We have a gig tonight at the club Crash! $400 big ones!"

"Awesome!" Troy exclaimed. And then headed back to his room as all the guys celebrated. He grabbed his cherry red electric guitar and began practicing his scales and chords.

On the other side of the city sat Gabriella Montez, mostly known as Gabby, only partially paying attention in her English class at Columbia University. She scribbled notes absentmindedly and pinched her hand to make herself wake up more and turned next to her to find her best friend, Taylor Mckessie, head on the desk, snoring.

Gabby sighed and pushed up the sleeves of her sweatshirt and tucked a stray lock of her dark brown hair behind her ear and went back to listening to her professor drone on about the book they were reading.

Gabby had been living in NYC for only 2 months since she had moved in with Taylor to go to Columbia and be closer to her other best friend, Sharpay and Ryan Evans, and Kelsi Nielson who all attended Julliard. Sharpay and Ryan as acting majors, and Kelsi, the piano prodigy, who aspired to compose more.

She and Taylor, on the other hand, were studying to be teachers, so they all had already set their futures as that was what was most important to all of them, their futures. Gabby lived on an existence of predictability and safety. She was on the track of life facing her future as a sweet kind and gentle teacher and she was okay with that, she was sure of everything and what would happen Since the unpredictable made her nervous. She hadn't even come close to a New York subway or night club without hyperventilating. Her solace was books and more books.

Suddenly, the class had come to a close and, after nudging Taylor awake, the two made their way out of the classroom.

"Oh Gabby, Sharpay texted me for us to join her and Ryan and Kelsi for lunch, is that cool?"

"Wheres the lunch?" Gabby asked.

"At their campus café, we can take the subway!"

"Taylor…"Gabby cut in nervously.

"Or, a cab." Taylor said reassuringly as she hailed a taxi to take them straight there.

Outside, Ryan waited for them and opened the taxi door as the girls stepped out. Then they all entered the café where Sharpay and Kelsi greeted them and they ordered food.

Once they had ordered, Sharpay cleared her throat to get their attention, "Ahem! Since today is Friday, why don't we all go out tonight? Theres a club called Crash I've been hearing about and theres supposed to be an insane band playing there called Spares!"

"I wanna go!" Kelsi exclaimed.

"I'm in!" Ryan shrugged.

"Sounds like fun!" Taylor agreed.

"I don't think I can guys." Gabby put in timidly.

"Well, why not?" asked Kelsi.

"I'm in the middle of this really good book and I was planning on spending my night reading it so…"

"Oh bull!" Sharpay exclaimed suddenly which made Gabby jump a little, "Come on Gabs! Live a little! Have fun!"

"Yeah and besides," Ryan added, "If you constantly read all the time, you get concentration wrinkles, and that's something that a seaweed wrap can't fix."

The girls all looked at him awkwardly and Gabby brushed off the awkwardness and went on, "Ok, Ok, I'll go but I want you guys to promise you will never leave my side!"

They all promised and Taylor rolled her eyes, "But Gabby, seriously, you have got to learn to cut loose every now and then!"

Gabby just sighed and stirred her coffee as she listened to her friends chatter on.

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